Ohio's six-month freeze on new Medicaid home care and hospice providers is set to expire Nov. 14, raising concerns among disabled residents who face gaps when aides leave. South Dakota voters will ...

IVF is one of several techniques that exist to help people conceive when they have problems with fertility. Having a baby is not always easy and you can feel desperate if you don't conceive quite as ...

Fertilisation might sound like a science class topic. But even if you haven’t thought much about it, a lot is happening inside your body long before a pregnancy test could show any result. Your eggs ...

UCLA graduate student Jeffrey Riffell and UCLA biology professor Richard Zimmer report the first experimental test on the role of small-scale physics as it influences the interactions between sperm ...

Researchers from Heidelberg have decoded a previously unknown molecular mechanism in the fertilisation process of vertebrates. The team of scientists at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg ...

Researchers have decoded a previously unknown molecular mechanism in the fertilization process of vertebrates. The team of scientists have identified a specific protein in frog egg extracts that the ...

New MAIA protein, named after the Greek goddess of motherhood, helps to draw the sperm into the egg cytoplasm for completion of fertilisation Infertility is unexplained in more than half of people who ...

Infertility is a challenge that many couples face and it can affect both men and women. There are various reasons for ...

After fertilisation, the egg cell (purple) releases zinc ions (blue dots), which changes the shape of the green protein on the surface of a sperm. As a result, the sperm can no longer dock to the egg ...

If you’ve been trying to conceive for some time but are still getting negative pregnancy tests, then IVF, or in vitro fertilization, may be an option for you. So what is IVF? In short, it’s a ...

The finding recasts the role of the egg in the fertilization process. The old notion of the egg as a passive partner for sperm entry is out. Instead, the researchers found, there are molecular players ...

Scientists are developing a new way to help infertile women have babies. A mature cell from the woman's body is merged with a chromosome-free egg, to which sperm is later added. The scientists insist ...